Sorry Darrel...I know another guy named Dave Taylor.
I have MCS 5.0.0.3
PBPX 3.0.1.4
MPLAB 8.73

Since I'm grasping at straws here, I will do all the updates.

BTW, Ran the serial test program you sent me. No matter what character I send out, I get a weird character back, like it's a baud rate problem. I changed baud rates in software to 9600 and the serial comm to same but it still gives same results. I tried even lower rates, no different. My PC serial card was set for 9600 baud, changed it to 19200 and the program and communicator to same. Same results. Type h, get back an "e" with back slanting accent.